Can You Answer these 100 Easy General Knowledge Quiz Questions
Easy General Knowledge Quiz Part 1 (Questions 1-20)
1. What is the theme of a passion play?
Answer: Christ’s suffering and death.
2. When did the Indian Peace Keeping Force 9IPKF) first land on Sri Lankan soil?
Answer: 30 July, 1987.
3. Where was the 1989 Kumbh Mela held?
Answer: Prayag.
4. What is the French equivalent of the Stock Exchange?
Answer: The Bourse.
5. Who started the Shuddhi Movement?
Answer: Swami Shraddhananda.
6. In the honors list of explorers, who was the Italian usually given credit for discovering Newfoundland?
Answer: John Cabot.
7. The ballet dancer’s short and spreading skirt is called:
Answer: Tutu.
8. What is the high tower of a Muslim Mosque called?
Answer: A minaret.
9. Where is the Leaning Tower of Pisa?
Answer: Tuscany, Italy.
10. Who built the Jahaz Mahal (Ship Palace), at Mandu?
Answer: Muhammad Shah.
11. What would be the nationality of a stamp with the word ‘Suomi’ printed on it?
Answer: Finnish.
12. Between which two of Canada’s Great Lakes do the Niagara Falls lie?
Answer: Lake Erie and Lake Ontario.
13. What is a “Kerry Blue”?
Answer: A breed of dog.
14. What mountains form the boundary between European Russia and Siberia?
Answer: The Urals.
15. Which river forms the major part of the international boundary between the United States of America and Mexico?
Answer: The Rio Grande.
16. How many feet are there in a nautical fathom?
Answer: Six.
17. Macao, on the southern coast of main land China, is a colony of which European nation?
Answer: Portugal.
18. What is depicted on the reverse side of a two pence coin?
Answer: The Prince of Wales’s Feathers.
19. It was formerly known as East Pakistan. By what name is it now known?
Answer: Bangladesh.
20. What is the name of the strait which separates North Island from South Island in New Zealand?
Answer: Cook strait.
Easy General Knowledge Quiz Part 2 (Questions 21-40)
21. Who was the Italian merchant explorer whose name was given to the continent of America?
Answer: Amerigo Vespucci.
22. On what part of the body is a “wimple” worn and who would normally be seen wearing it?
Answer: On the head of a nun – it is a form of head -dress.
23. What is meant by UFO?
Answer: Unidentified Flying object.
24. What did Sir Rowland Hill introduce in Britain in 1840?
Answer: The Penny Post.
25. Who would have worn a ‘gorget’, ‘pauldron’, ‘beaver’ and ‘greave’?
Answer: A knight – they are all parts of a suit of armor.
26. ‘Bastinado’ was an eastern form of punishment. Of what did it consist?
Answer: The beating of the soles of the feet with thin rods.
27. How many balls are there on a snooker table at the beginning of a game?
Answer: 22 -including the cue-ball.
28. The flag of Nepal is unique in terms of national flags. What is remarkable about it?
Answer: It is not rectangular – it comprises two over-lapping triangles.
29. What is the inscription on the obverse side of the Victoria Cross?
Answer: For Valour.
30. Only one astrological sign is not named after a living creature – which one?
Answer: Libra (the scales).
31. With which legendary heroine is the City of Coventry associated?
Answer: Lady Godiva.
32. What is the expansion of M.B.B.S?
Answer: Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery.
33. What is Ichthyology?
Answer: The study of the natural history of fishes.
34. Pilgrims flock from all over the world to visit Mecca. Where is Mecca?
Answer: Saudi Arabia, on the shore of Red Sea.
35. Where would you find “fire damp”?
Answer: Down a mine – it’s the miner’s name for methane gas.
36. What would you do with a “wandering sailor”?
Answer: Plant it – it is a household plant.
37. What color of Ensign does the Merchant Navy fly?
Answer: Red.
38. What is the alternative name for Holy Island, the island off the north coast of Northumberland?
Answer: Lindisfarne.
39. British scientist Lord Ernest Rutherford won a Nobel Prize in 1908. In which field of science did he work?
Answer: Atomic Science – he was the first man to split the atom.
40. What kind of bird did Noah first release from the Ark after the rains abated?
Answer: A Raven.
Easy General Knowledge Quiz Part 3 (Questions 41-60)
41. To which country belongs the Dogon tribes?
Answer: Mali.
42. How many hoops are used in a game of croquet?
Answer: Six.
43. Which British inventor developed the hovercraft?
Answer: Sir Christopher Cockerell.
44. A ‘rhea’ is a flightless bird but what does the geographical term ‘ria’ mean?
Answer: A drowned river valley.
45. Neil Armstrong was the first man to set foot on the surface of the moon – but who was the second?
Answer: Buzz Aldrin.
46. What is ‘xenophobia’?
Answer: Dislike or fear of strangers.
47. What does the Red Triangle stand for?
Answer: Family Planning.
48. What famous tourist attraction is wearing away at the rate of five feet per annum?
Answer: Niagara Falls.
49. According to Bible, on what day did God create the sun, moon and the stars?
Answer: On the fourth day.
50. The birthstone of August is Peridot. What color is it?
Answer: Green.
51. Where would you find the San Andreas Fault?
Answer: The west coast of the United States centred on San Francisco.
52. In which city would you find the Jacques Cartier Bridge?
Answer: Montreal.
53. What is the longest river in the British Isles?
Answer: The River Shannon in Eire.
54. What is measured on a Beaufort Scale?
Answer: Wind force or speed.
55. What is ‘dutch courage’?
Answer: Courage gained through alcoholic drink.
56. What is ‘Mistral’?
Answer: A cold wind that blows down the Rhone Valley in France.
57. Which country is the second largest in the world, in area?
Answer: Canada.
58. Of which European country do the Magyars make up 92% of the population?
Answer: Hungary.
59. Which river’s waters, head waters and tributaries drain half the continent of South America?
Answer: Amazon.
60. Which is the largest city in the largest state of USA?
Answer: Anchorage.
Easy General Knowledge Quiz Part 4 (Questions 61-80)
61. What is the third bail to be potted in the sequence of colors in snooker?
Answer: Brown.
62. Which equestrian sport tests the all-round ability of the horse and rider?
Answer: Three day eventing.
63. What is the basic currency unit of Vietnam?
Answer: The dong.
64. How many Sikh representatives were there in the constituent Assembly of 1948?
Answer: Four.
65. The Jana Sangh Party was founded in:
Answer: 1949.
66. Which town in Umbria was the birthplace of St. Francis?
Answer: Assisi.
67. Which public official can order an inquest into instances of sudden, violent or suspicious death?
Answer: Coroner.
68. Carlo Collodi wrote a story about a wooden puppet which became human. What is its title?
Answer: The Adventure of Pinocchio.
69. What is the term for a person with assets of over 1000 million dollars?
Answer: Billionaire.
70. What is the acronym for the agency set up in 1923 to provide co-operation between police forces Answer: worldwide?
Interpol.
71. Which district of London gave its name to the Prime Meridian?
Answer: Greenwich.
72. Which is the country in the British Isles is said to have the highest density of sheep in the world?
Answer: Wales.
73. In which country are England’s largest lake and highest mountain situated?
Answer: Cumbria.
74. Where was Janata Dal, as a new political party, launched in October 1988?
Answer: Bangalore.
75. In which town did Isaac Newton attend the grammar school, and Margaret Thatcher attend the local girl’s school?
Answer: Grantham.
76. Which Indian city has a style of riding breeches named after it?
Answer: Jodhpur.
77. From which of the nine named planets does the mineral tellurium get its name:
Answer: Earth.
78. Which English physicist and mathematician was born in the same year that Galileo died?
Answer: Isaac Newton.
79. Which British city is the home of the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television?
Answer: Bradford.
80. What comes between duke and earl in the ranking of British peers?
Answer: Marquess.
Easy General Knowledge Quiz Part 5 (Questions 81-100)
81. What is the emblem of Islam, displayed, for example, on the national flags of Turkey, Pakistan and Tunisia?
Answer: Crescent moon.
82. Which is the biggest port in India?
Answer: Chennai.
83. What is the English name for the Danish Port of Helsinger, the setting for Shakespeare’s “Hamlet”?
Answer: Elsinore.
84. Which UK government funded body has an official symbol of quality called a ‘kite’ mark?
Answer: British Standards Institute.
85. The famous scientist Thomas Alwa Edison was died on:
Answer: October 18, 1931.
86. In which year was the artificial rubber – Neoprene – discovered?
Answer: 1932.
87. In which year vaccine for Yellow fever formulated?
Answer: 1932.
88. In which year Frequency Modulation (EM) radio transmission started?
Answer: 1933.
89. Which is the largest waste producing country in the world?
Answer: America (Here one man produces 2 Kg of wastes per day).
90. Which state in USA is known as “The Land of Enchantment”?
Answer: New Mexico.
91. Which one of the five Great Lakes lies totally within the United States?
Answer: Lake Michigan.
92. What is the other name of Vitamin A?
Answer: Retinol.
93. Which Scottish waterway links the North Sea with the Atlantic Ocean?
Answer: Caledonian Canal.
94. Which disease in children is caused by the intensive use of nitrate fertilizers?
Answer: Methemoglobinemia.
95. Where was India’s 1st ship-building yard established?
Answer: Kochi.
96. The Postal system in India dates back to the year:
Answer: 1837.
97. Which European country has been ruled by Harald V since 1991?
Answer: Norway.
98. Who is the patron saint of music?
Answer: St. Cecilia.
99. What was the code of gallantry and honor that medieval knights were pledged to observe?
Answer: Chivalry.
100. Which were the two factions of the Russian Social Democratic Party whose names were taken from the words the ‘majority’ and ‘minority’?
Answer: Bolshevik and Menshevik.